Day: July 3, 2006

Geek Software of the Week: Ykill

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YKill One thing I really like about Linspire Linux is that it has a “kill” option. If a window, or application gets “frozen” for some reason, you can kill it by starting the “Kill” app and hovering over the window and “killing” it! Goblineye’s YKill does this for Microsoft Windows!

YKill is a complete window manager that gives you full of control of windows and processes in your system. YKill…

* Can Close and Kill applications that stopped responding!
* Can help you manage top-level windows in your system.
* Can show you information about your system.
* Can show you information about running processes.
* Fully supports Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP.

YKill by Goblineye

It is pretty slick! Enjoy!

Academics Break the Great Firewall of China

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“Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China, but have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial-of-service attacks against specific Internet Protocol addresses in the country.”

Academics break the Great Firewall of China

Very cool! China wants, of course, to deny free access to ideas that their government does not approve of. Now, academics have broken their firewall and made it possible for folks to access world-wide information.